Maxus Australia restructures management

SYDNEY- Maxus Australia has restructured its senior management team with David Gaines, the managing director of the Sydney operation, being promoted to the newly created role of national CEO and Ron Bartlett, the former head of the Motivator media agency brand, moving into the role of non-executive chairman.

At Maxus Melbourne, Richard Smith will retain the role of managing director, now reporting into David Gaines in Sydney. 

Regional APAC CEO, Neil Stewart (pictured), said: “Our ambitions for Maxus in Australia are very high - especially in terms of enhancing our product offering. David is the best we have in the region to deliver the combination of data-driven insights and big idea creativity into our people and processes.” 

Gaines added: “We’ve managed to leverage the relative strengths of the offices to good effect in the last 18 months. Now that we have a clear position and direction into which the Maxus product will evolve, we need to move from just doing tactically what’s been right to also having a clear national strategy for us over the next 2-3 years.”